The great Siemens Enterprise UC giveaway.

"Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEN) announced some upgrades and new packages for its flagship OpenScape Voice platform, as well as its former flagship, HiPath 4000, and the emphasis is clearly on driving adoption of these core platforms--even if it means giving away some basic Unified Communications applications to do it," writes editor Eric Krapf on the No Jitter blog.

"The new announcement has three main components:
* OpenScape UC Server Enterprise: Here's where SEN is following Avaya and other vendors into the realm of giving away much UC functionality and apps in order to get the customer on board with the core platform. OpenScape UC Server Enterprise bundles in licenses for the following UC applications when customers buy the VOIP:" Krapf writes.